7 courses with the subject MUSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MUSC 1200Music Appreciation3
| Lecture Music Appreciation introduces the student to basic music concepts and listening skills. Concepts include basic music elements, music theory, musical forms, and musical styles and characteristics, including parallel historical, social, and cultural climate. The course is designed to broaden understanding, listening awareness, and sensitivity to a variety of musical styles. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06 MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG
| Lecture American Popular Music covers the diversity of American popular music through the study of musical styles that constitute popular music in America. It will explore the influence of diverse cultures on American popular music, including blues, jazz, rock-n-roll, country, folk, gospel, hip-hop, and other genres. The course is designed to develop listening skills and broaden an understanding of the historical development of musical styles, including an awareness of the dynamics of race and ethnicity in American culture through popular music. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 07
| Lecture This course will provide an overview of the history of rock music and the cultural diversity that gave rise to it, beginning with its roots in blues, R&B, and country to its ascendancy. The impact that rock music has had on the political and social scene, and on world music in the 20th century to the present, will also be explored. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06
| Lecture World Music exposes students to music from various parts of the world and examines the many genres of music and how they function in the global community from the past to the present. The course will focus on the elements and principles of music (pitch, melody, rhythm, texture, timbre, voice and instruments, performance practices) in a global context so that students will acquire the necessary tools for listening and understanding the impact of music on the peoples of the world and on our roles as citizens in a changing global environment. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06, 08
| Private Lesson (30 min) These individual lessons are designed for students at the beginning or elementary level of vocal or instrumental instruction who have little or no experience. This course includes basic music theory and performance practices, including exploring various genres through experience with a variety of repertoire. This course may be repeated for a maximum of four (4) credits. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06 P a g e | 91
Subject
MUSC
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Credit unit
credit
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for a maximum of four (4) credits.
| Lecture Music Theory Fundamentals is designed to give students a basic background in music theory. The course covers basic concepts of musical elements (Western and non-Western) and notation, including various scale patterns, key signatures, rhythm, chords, composition, ear training, and simple instrument playing. Includes an exploration of how music has changed through time and how music genres reflect their cultural backdrop. Prior experience with musical instrument playing or note reading is helpful, but not required. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06
| Private Lesson (30 min) These individual lessons are designed for students at the intermediate or advanced level of vocal or instrumental instruction and who have some experience in technical proficiency. This course includes music theory, and various genres, styles and performance practices appropriate to the genre and time period and includes some sort of public performance. MNTC Goal Area(s): 06
